Tag: Al Jazeera

Relief, satisfaction at conviction of Syrian former colonel (Cathrin Schaer, Al Jazeera)

The final day of the world’s first criminal trial focused on war crimes in Syria started long before dawn. A small crowd began to...

US pushing for tougher sanctions on N Korea after missile tests (Al Jazeera)

The United States is pushing the UN Security Council to impose more sanctions on North Korea after Pyongyang carried out a series of missile...

Moon wants to formally end the Korean War. Can that bring peace? (Zaheena Rasheed, Al Jazeera)

On the day that North Korea test fired its first missile of the year, South Korean President Moon Jae-in was in the border town of Goseong,...

MEPs accuse EU official of supporting Serb secession (Al Jazeera)

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is being asked to investigate an EU official’s alleged role in assisting Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik’s...

US wholesale price inflation cools in final month of red-hot year (Al Jazeera)

First, the good news: wholesale price inflation in the United States downshifted in December. Now for the bad: the declaration capped off the largest calendar...

CAIR urges US gov’t to probe group accused of ‘spying’ on Muslims (Ali Harb, Al Jazeera)

A prominent Muslim civil rights organisation in the United States has called on the US government to investigate a group it has accused of spying on...

Russia says NATO talks ‘unsuccessful’ as Poland warns of war (Al Jazeera)

Russia has described its security talks with the United States and NATO this week as “unsuccessful”, saying there is continued disagreement on fundamental issues. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry...

Pakistan welcomes P5 statement on preventing nuclear war (Al Jazeera)

The Pakistani government has welcomed a joint statement by the P5 on preventing nuclear war as “a positive development”, the country’s foreign ministry spokesperson...

Majoritarian violence is slowly tearing India apart (Apoorvanand, Al Jazeera)

In India, the new year started with a perverse attack on the country’s Muslims. On January 1, photographs of more than 100 Muslim women...

Nobel panel: Abiy has ‘special responsibility’ to end Tigray war (Al Jazeera)

The panel that awards the Nobel Peace Prize said Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali, who won the honour in 2019, bears a “special...

Nigerians react with joy and resolve to lifting of Twitter ban (Festus Iyorah, Al Jazeera)

Solomon Elusoji, a Lagos-based journalist, felt a rush of relief early on Thursday after being able to access Twitter for the first time in...

Kazakhstan unrest highlights tricky terrain of fuel subsidy cuts (Charu Sudan Kasturi, Al Jazeera)

The government announces a new policy that will increase fuel prices. Street protests break out. An unprepared administration cracks down with excessive force. That...

We need better laws to prosecute atrocities in Syria (Catherine Marchi-Uhel, Paulo Pinheiro, Hanny Megally, Lynn Welchman, Al Jazeera)

Syrian civilians have paid a heavy price for a decade of war in which their government and parties to the conflict, such as ISIL...

Cash-strapped Lebanese drivers block roads in ‘Day of rage’ (Kareem Chehayeb, Al Jazeera)

Truck and bus drivers across Lebanon have blocked roads and highways with their vehicles, urging the government to help them cope with skyrocketing fuel...

Pegasus used to target El Salvador activists, journalists: Report (Al Jazeera)

The mobile phones of dozens of journalists and activists in El Salvador have been hacked since at least early 2020 and implanted with Israeli-made Pegasus...

Two Israeli officers killed in ‘friendly fire’ at West Bank base (Al Jazeera)

Two Israeli officers were killed by mistake by one of their own troops during a security patrol near their base in the occupied West...